Mfundo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The educated one
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mfundo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Eswatini it is the 86th most common given name.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 3.5K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 261K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Eswatini, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The educated one.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mfundo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #795 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Mfundo | 47 |
| SZ Eswatini | #86 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 6 | Mfundo | 6 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Mfundo | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Mfundo | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Mfundo | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Mfundo | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 6 | #33 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mfundo mean, and where does it come from?
- The educated one. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Mfundo a male or female name?
- Mfundo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mfundo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Mfundo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mfundo.
- How common is the name Mfundo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13,000 people in South Africa have Mfundo as their first given name, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Mfundo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Mfundo is the 795th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mfundoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mfundo” — the 795th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.